papacy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The office of a pope.
2. isim The office of the pope of Rome, who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

   “The Vatican defends the primacy of the papacy.”

3. isim The period of a particular pope's reign.

   “The papacy of John Paul II ended in 2005, after the pope's long battle with illness ended.”

4. isim Roman Catholicism generally: synonym of popery.